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New database increases power of surveillance
Richard Ford More than half the population supports the Government’s controversial identity card scheme, according to a survey for the Home Office. Sixty-one per cent of people agree strongly or slightly with the £5.75
Read More »9 Secrets Health Insurers Don’t Want You to Know
They make it hard to get the money you’re entitled to. Here’s how to get them to pay. by Suz Redfearn Health insurance companies like to keep secrets. And they like to save money.
Read More »Senate Gives Telecoms Immunity For Illegal Spying
Senate Passes Bill to Expand U.S. Spying Powers By ERIC LICHTBLAU After more than a year of heated political wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory Tuesday by voting to broaden
Read More »BUSH REGIME BUILDING CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Rule by fear or rule by law? “The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of
Read More »President Bush is guilty of terrorism
Keith Olbermann MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann a MSNBC commentator has declared that President Bush is guilty of terrorism because of his warrentless eavesdropping program. The Senate-passed eavesdropping measure unlike the earlier House-passed bill
Read More »Family wants answers to CIA agent’s mysterious death
Too many secrets: Family wants answers to CIA agent’s mysterious 1982 death By KIM BRIGGEMAN of the Missoulian Kent (Dan) Daniels holds a photograph of his brother Jerry Daniels at the gravesite in the
Read More »Court says no to CSIS wiretaps overseas
In a judgment made public late Friday, a Federal Court judge denied a request from Canada’s spy agency to conduct electronic intercepts on 10 suspects outside Canada.The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was permitted
Read More »Uncovering the truth about CIA torture tapes
Congress must remedy its abysmal record of investigating the Bush administration on prisoner abuse and torture. By Anthony D. Romero It’s now a matter of public record: the Central Intelligence Agency has tortured detainees
Read More »President Bush to veto torture Bill
By Kerry Sheridan in Washington US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding. “The President will veto that
Read More »Open government and politics
Dr. Joe Harrop: Open government and politics: Who gets what, when, how Dr. Joe Harrop There is always a tension between the need for transparency in government and the reality of making deals; that
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